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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Port of Emacs client / server programs to Windows NT
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:28:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <454322A9.7010805@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061028090605.GA16477@janet>


> - It doesn't require Winsock.
>   
That might have been important 10 years ago, but now I doubt there are 
any installations of Windows 95 without the networking addon used by 
Emacs users.

>  Would it be worth making the
> code in server.el resort back to running a separate process if the
> :local sockets are not supported?
Maybe a week ago it would have been worth it, but not now that Juanma 
has completed his work.

> Or maybe Emacs could be made to use
> named pipes instead of sockets if a :local socket is created on
> Windows as they seem to be the Windows equivalent of Unix domain
> sockets?
>   
It might be worth adding cross-platform support for named pipes after 
the release.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-28  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-28  9:06 Port of Emacs client / server programs to Windows NT Neil Roberts
2006-10-28  9:28 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2006-10-30  0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-30  0:59   ` David Kastrup
2006-10-30  1:16     ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-30  7:22   ` Neil Roberts
2006-10-30  8:56     ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-30  9:11       ` Neil Roberts
2006-10-30  9:30         ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-30 10:16           ` Kim F. Storm
2006-10-30 10:39             ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-30 11:00               ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-30 14:17                 ` Neil Roberts
2006-10-30 20:01                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-30 20:37             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-30 14:10     ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-30  0:58 ` Stefan Monnier

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